Conquerors validating Arabic legal documents in Granada

Only two items in CALD bear the typology 49933 as they derive from a very specific legal procedure that only took place in Granada after the Conquest in 1492 by the Castilian authorities using Arabic. This two items were preserved in the collection of Arabic documents in the Archivo Municipal de Granada. The structure of both items is clearly that of a question on the validity of the Arabic text written down in the recto of the paper, dated in Rabī‘ II 904/August 1499.

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